Table Of ContentDISTRIBUTIVE AND PROCEDURAL JUSTICE
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Distributive and Procedural
Justice
Research and Social Applications
Edited by
KJELL TÖRNBLOM
University of Skövde, Sweden
and
RIËL VERMUNT
University of Leiden, The Netherlands and University of Skövde, Sweden
© Kjell Törnblom and Riël Vermunt 2007
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Distributive and procedural justice : research and social
applications
1. Distributive justice. 2. Judicial process 3. Distributive
justice - Research 4. Judicial process - Research
I. Törnblom, Kjell Yngve. II. Vermunt, Riël
340.1'15
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Distributive and procedural justice : research and social applications / edited by
Kjell Törnblom and Riël Vermunt.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-7546-4766-9
1. Distributive justice. 2. Fairness. 3. Justice, Administration of. I. Törnblom,
Kjell Yngve. II. Vermunt, Riël.
HB523.D569 2007
303.3'72--dc22
2006036921
ISBN: 978-0-7546-4766-9
Printed and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books Ltd, Bodmin, Cornwall.
Contents
List of Figures vii
List of Tables ix
List of Contributors xi
Preface xv
Introduction Distributive and Procedural Justice 1
Riël Vermunt and Kjell Y. Törnblom
PART I DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE 13
Chapter 1 The Reciprocal Relationship between Affect and Perceptions
of Fairness 15
Elizabeth Mullen
Chapter 2 Toward a Resource Production Theory of Distributive Justice 39
Kjell Y. Törnblom and Ali Kazemi
Chapter 3 Just Solidarity: How Justice Conditions Intergenerational
Solidarity 67
Steffen Mau and Sonja Wrobel
PART II PROCEDURAL JUSTICE 89
Chapter 4 Why Do People Care about Procedural Fairness?
The Importance of Membership Monitoring 91
Celia M. Gonzalez and Tom R. Tyler
Chapter 5 The Effects of Procedural Unfairness on Norm-Violating Behavior 111
Jacqueline Modde and Riël Vermunt
Chapter 6 Interactions between Procedural Fairness and Outcome
Favorability in Conflict Situations 125
Markus M. Müller and Elisabeth Kals
vi Distributive and Procedural Justice
PART III DISTRIBUTIVE AND PROCEDURAL JUSTICE 141
Chapter 7 Distributive and Procedural Fairness Promote Cooperative
Conflict Management 143
Ali Kazemi
Chapter 8 The Talk of Negotiators: Shaping the Fairness of the Process
and Outcome 159
Karen A. Hegtvedt
Chapter 9 Social Injustice in Indian Country: Historical Antecedents
of Current Issues 183
Laurence Armand French and Nancy Picthall-French
PART IV DISTRIBUTIVE AND PROCEDURAL JUSTICE
RESEARCH: EPISTEMOLOGY, METHOD AND
APPLICATION 205
Chapter 10 Subjective Impartiality: Justice Judgments between
Morality and Self-Interest 207
Holger Lengfeld
Chapter 11 Studying Justice: Measurement, Estimation, and Analysis
of the Actual Reward and the Just Reward 225
Guillermina Jasso
Chapter 12 Justice Conflicts and the Justice of Conflict Resolution 255
Leo Montada
Index 269
List of Figures
Figure 1.1 An Affective Model of Justice Reasoning 19
Figure 2.1 Modes of Resource Production/Acquisition and Associated
Moderators 51
Figure 3.1 Intergenerational Justice and Solidarity in Parliamentary Debates 76
Figure 3.2 Attitudes on Aims and Principles of Pension Schemes in the EU-15 80
Figure 3.3 Attitudes to the Pension System in Germany 81
Figure 6.1 Relationships between Procedural Fairness and Hardness
for Three Levels of Outcome Valence 135
Figure 10.1 Pay Satisfaction (Relative Frequencies, n = 688) 217
Figure 10.2 Justice Judgments of Pay (Relative Frequencies, n = 688) 218
Figure 10.3 Justice and Satisfaction Judgments (Regression Lines) 218
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List of Tables
Table 6.1 Means, Standard Deviations, N, and Intercorrelations of the
Variables 13
Table 6.2 Moderated Regression, Criterion: Cooperation, Predictors:
Procedural Fairness, Outcome Favorability and the Product
Term Fairness × Favorability (All Variables are Z-standardized) 134
Table 6.3 Moderated Regression, Criterion: Hardness, Predictors:
Procedural Fairness, Outcome Favorability and the Product
Term Fairness × Favorability (All Variables are Z-standardized) 134
Table 7.1 Means and Standard Deviations of Fairness Judgments
of Outcome and Procedure 150
Table 7.2 Means and Standard Deviations of Willingness to Employ
and Perceived Fairness of Conflict Management Strategies
Related to Distributive and Procedural Fairness 151
Table 8.1 Subjects’ Message Library 167
Table 8.2 Descriptions of Situational Factors, Communications, and
Perceptions of Fairness 172
Table 8.3 Standardized Regression Coefficients (Standard Error)
for Effects of Situational Factors and Communications
on Perceptions of Justice 173
Table 10.1 Identification with the Firm and Evaluation of the Works
Council (Factor Analysis) 216
Table 10.2 Determinants of Firm Identification and Works Council’s
Evaluation (Regression Analysis) 219
Table 11.1 Observer-by-Rewardee Matrices of the Actual Reward,
the Just Reward, and the Justice Evaluation 227
Table 11.2 Occupations Studied in ISSP, ISJP, NIS and GSOEP 229
Table 11.3 Characteristics of Fictitious CEOs, Salary Perceptions Study 233
Table 11.4 Facsimile of Instructions in CEO Salary Perceptions Study 234
Table 11.5 Facsimile of CEO Vignette in Salary Perceptions Study 234
Table 11.6 Facsimile of Instructions in Study of the Justice of Earnings,
Using the One-Reward-per-Rewardee Design 240
Table 11.7 Facsimile of Vignette in Study of the Justice of Earnings,
Using the One-Reward-per-Rewardee Design 241
